From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [la] + [la]; see capacious.
Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native [enm] terms in
[enm]/[enm] (e.g. [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm], etc. "to receive" from [ang]),
native [enm] (from [ang]), and non-native [enm], [enm] (from [fro], [fro]).
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To be give n, sent , or paid something.
2. * [chapter=XXXIX]
3. * [en]
4. [en] To take , as something that is offer ed; to accept .
5. * [act=II]
6. * [en]
7. * [1 Kings]
8. * [en]
9. [en] To take goods knowing them to be stolen .
10. [en] To act as a host for guest s; to give admittance to; to permit to enter , as into one's house , presence , company , etc.
11. * [Acts]
12. * [chapter=The Select Circle]
13. [en] To incur (an injury ).
14. * [en]
15. To allow (a custom , tradition , etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
16. * [Mark]
17. [en] To detect a signal from a transmitter .
18. [en] To be in a position to take possession , or hit back the ball .
1. [en] To be in a position to hit back a service .
2. [en] To be in a position to catch a forward pass .
19. [en] To accept into the mind ; to understand .
20. * [chapter=57]
**** Conjugation
[stem=receiv]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Related terms
{{col4|en |receivable |receivableness |receival |receiveable |receiver
|receivership |reception |receptionist |receipt |receptive |receptacle
|recipient }}
**** Translations
[to take what is offered, accept from another]
- Afrikaans: [af] , [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] [colloquial]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] [humble]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Kambera: [xbr]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn]
- Ngazidja Comorian: _which has been sent:_ [zdj] , _which is offered:_ [zdj]
- Norman: [nrf]
- North Frisian: [frr] [Mooring] , [frr] [Föhr-Amrum]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old French: [fro] , [fro] , [fro]
- Old Javanese: [kaw] , [kaw]
- Old Occitan: [pro]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi]
- Zou: [zom]
[trans-bottom]
[to take possession of]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to act as a host for guests]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar] [past] , [ar] [present] , [ar] [verbal noun]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek:
- Ido: [io]
- Kurdish:
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norwegian:
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Volapük: [vo]
[trans-bottom]
[telecommunications: to detect a signal]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Ido: [io]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] An operation in which data is received.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1992 | author=Tara M. Madhyastha | title=A Portable System for Data Sonification | page=71
|passage=In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a
wide pitch range, and sends and RECEIVES are relatively balanced; although in
the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends [...]}}
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]